When Browsing works, what to do to document for future failures

30 Oct 2006 1:59 AM

willbro

I've got intermittent browser blues. Strange Master elections in the night
(and event log). When it all works, (or at least I can print and copy files,
etc.) what should I do to document the state of the system? And, is each
command run on all machines? (i.e., browstat, ipconfig /all, etc.) Thanks!

30 Oct 2006 3:33 AM

Chuck

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:59:01 -0800, willbro <will***@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>I've got intermittent browser blues. Strange Master elections in the night
>(and event log). When it all works, (or at least I can print and copy files,
>etc.) what should I do to document the state of the system? And, is each
>command run on all machines? (i.e., browstat, ipconfig /all, etc.) Thanks!

You can use "ipconfig /all" to verify configuration, and secondarily,
connectivity (if a computer is getting DHCP settings, it is connected to some
degree), running from each computer. And you can use "browstat status", run
from each computer running Windows NT / 2K / XP.

But if you're getting strange elections, it sounds like one or more computers
are losing connectivity periodically with the others. If you're using WiFi,
this would be normal. You could read my tutorial too.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/09/nt-browser-and-windows-networking.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/09/nt-browser-and-windows-networking.html

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Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
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